Florian Burkhardt

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Florian Burkhardt (2015)

Florian Burkhardt (born March 13, 1974 in Basel , pseudonym: "electroboy" ) is a Swiss model , author and composer .

Life

Florian Burkhardt is the son of Hildegard and Peter Burkhardt, the former Vice Director of the Federal Aircraft Factory . After graduating from high school, Burkhardt graduated as a primary school teacher in a Catholic boarding school in Zug. Initially he devoted himself to professional snowboarding . He was a co-founder of Radio 3fach , created the first Swiss snowboard magazine Independent in 1993 and then worked as a freelance editor for the highest-circulation snowboard magazine in German-speaking Europe, Board Generation . He is seen today as a snowboard pioneer.

Burkhardt then moved to Los Angeles , where he was signed by an agent and trained by Ivana Chubbuck and Robert Easton . An article in a film magazine resulted in jobs as a photo and catwalk model, which laid the foundation for his unexpected modeling career, which later led him to the catwalks of Milan , London and Tokyo . He had contracts with Wilhelmina Models , Boss Model Management and Why Not Model Agency and worked for labels like Prada , Gucci , Moschino and Dolce & Gabbana and photographers like David LaChapelle and Albert Watson booked him for their projects.

After he had finished modeling, he moved to Zurich , studied multimedia design in 1999 and worked as a concept designer at ROSA, the hottest internet agency at the time. He designed portals for, among others, SRF , Migros and Cablecom . His project, emotionstimulator , grew out of his collaboration with the agency and was one of the first to bring videos to the Internet, which earned him a reputation as an Internet pioneer. In 2001 he was already suffering from anxiety psychoses, which made a stay in the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich necessary and which have dominated his everyday life ever since.

From 2004, Burkhardt organized electroboy parties in which the visual and art should play at least as big a role as the music itself. The events developed into elaborate festivals and Burkhardt was voted “ Organizer of the Year” in Switzerland in 2005 . He also founded Kommerz , a newspaper for electronic music and carried out the first Swiss Electronic Music Awards (SEMA). He also started producing electronic music himself and released five CDs (see discography).

Burkhardt is seen as "representing a pronounced narcissism and a generation that let off steam in the hype of the Internet boom and techno parties". In 2004 he published the book STOP , a collection of observations and thoughts.

In 2006 he disappeared from the public scene. Since his health was not good, several attempts to pursue gainful employment failed. With the small disability pension, he moved to Berlin , where life is cheaper than in Switzerland.

In 2009 Burkhardt was the founder and artistic director of Cabaret Voltaire in Berlin. He then retired to Bochum for three years and then returned to Berlin. He has been active as a visual designer since 2013.

He produces bold, vector-based graphics that he prints on acrylic sheets with silicone paint. He also produces high-quality clothing in short runs. In November 2014, the documentary came electroboy of Marcel Gisler about Burkhardt's life to the Swiss cinema. In November 2015, the film also opened in Germany and Austria.

Florian Burkhardt on the movie poster for "electroboy"

Burkhardt is an openly gay person , has lived in Bern since April 2017 and is a staunch atheist and vegan . From April 2015, Burkhardt was a columnist for the Swiss online newspaper watson.ch . At the beginning of 2016, he switched to the social project Surprise Magazin , where he published his monthly column until 2018 under the name "Marginal Note". In 2017 his first novel, My Mother's Child, was published by Wörterseh-Verlag . The novel The Weight of Freedom followed in 2018 by the same publisher. In the same year Burkhardt and Lunik producer Luk Zimmermann released the single “Nur eine Maschine” as “electroboy.ch”. In June 2019 Florian Burkhardt withdrew from the public as an electroboy with the mini-album “Das fgende Spaghettimonster”, a party and an exhibition .

In 2020 Burkhardt begins to publish music as a songwriter under his own name .

Movies

Fonts

  • STOP. Pro Business, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937343-63-6 .
  • Burghölzli, stories and pictures (with a detailed conversation between Marcel Gisler and Florian Burkhardt). Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85791-805-6 .

Autobiographical novels

Discography

As an electroboy
  • 2005: CD electroboy (tokah / Namskeio)
  • 2006: EP Pädopop (alpinechic)
  • 2006: CD 50 mg ( Muve Recordings / music distribution)
  • 2006: CD Hör die Emotionen (tokah / residual culture)
  • 2006: CD The Big Pop (tokah / iMusican)
Banal as a form
  • 2008: CD Form Banal (tokah)
As electroboy.ch
  • 2018: Single Nur ein Maschine (Sophie Records)
  • 2019: EP The Flying Spaghetti Monster (Sophie Records)

Web links

Commons : Florian Burkhardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Electroboy: Journey into the Past ›3FACH article at 3fach.ch from April 28, 2016
  2. ↑ ELECTROBOY  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Semaine de la critique Feltival del film Locarno@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.semainedelacritique.ch  
  3. ↑ Bettina Spoerri: Ups and downs. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ electroboy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. cabaretvoltaire.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cabaretvoltaire.de  
  5. ^ Andy Eglin: Locarno on the last - final report from the 67th International Film Festival. Kulturkritik.ch, article from September 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ References from Florian Burkhardt. Accessed November 23, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ electroboy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. cabaretvoltaire.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cabaretvoltaire.de  
  8. ↑ emotion stimulator. Accessed November 23, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ The price of a thick umbilical cord. Article on nahaufnahme.ch from August 10, 2015.
  10. ^ Andreas Kneubühler: "Electroboy": Marcel Gisler's premiere in Locarno. saiten.ch, August 9, 2014.
  11. ↑ electroboy at cabaretvoltaire.de ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Electroboy: A farewell with a roar. 20 minutes , October 20, 2005.
  13. ↑ Newspaper for electronic music in Switzerland (2005) at cabaretvoltaire.de ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Florian Burkhardt: Newspaper for electronic music in Switzerland. October 24, 2019, accessed on November 23, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Swiss Electronic Music Awards 2005 ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. electroboy.net  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / electroboy.net
  16. ↑ On the trail of life, Tagblatt Online, article from August 11, 2014 ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Book “STOP” by Florian Burkhardt (2002) on cabaretvoltaire.de ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ a b Biography ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at florianburkhardt.ch, accessed on August 18, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.florianburkhardt.ch
  19. ↑ Cabaret Voltaire in Berlin ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. electroboy.net  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / electroboy.net
  20. ^ Cabaret Voltaire Berlin. Retrieved November 23, 2019 (American English).
  21. ↑ http://www.electroboy.de/
  22. ↑ hang up project (hup) at electroboy.de ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ electroboy movies.ch
  24. ↑ dejavu-film | ELECTROBOY. In: www.dejavu-film.de. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
  25. ^ Andreas Kneubühler "Electroboy": Marcel Gisler's premiere in Locarno. saiten.ch, August 9, 2014
  26. ↑ «Electroboy» - finally out of the constant fast lane Interview by Jana Avanzini at Zentralplus.ch on April 24, 2017
  27. ↑ a b Florian Burkhardt: Freedom for the youth! In: züritipp from May 29, 2017.
  28. ↑ From highlife to hell. issuu.com
  29. ↑ Electroboy column by Florian Burkhardt on watson.ch
  30. ↑ Surprise: Surprise: Surprise 426/18. Accessed August 29, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Surprise 370/16. In: Issuu. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
  32. ↑ The novel "The Weight of Freedom". (No longer available online.) Florian Burkhardt, archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; accessed on May 8, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.florianburkhardt.com
  33. ↑ Florian Burkhardt: music project "electroboy.ch". (No longer available online.) Florian Burkhardt, archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; accessed on May 8, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.florianburkhardt.com
  34. ↑ Press release music project »electroboy.ch«, electroboy party and exhibition. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
  35. ↑ Mirjam Comtesse: Electroboy pulls the plug . In: Tages-Anzeiger . July 6, 2019, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on November 23, 2019]).
  36. ↑ Florian Burkhardt: Florian Burkhardt - Singer-Songwriter. July 10, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 .
  37. ↑ «My life became a show, on the stage of which I no longer appeared». July 10, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  38. ↑ Marie Schmidt : "Electroboy": Not just beautiful . In: The time . November 26, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 18, 2018]).
  39. ↑ electroboy music publications (albums) at cabaretvoltaire.de ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  40. ↑ ELECTROBOY discogs.com
  41. ↑ Electroboy is back again. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 18, 2018 ; accessed on January 18, 2018 (Swiss Standard German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bluewin.ch
  42. ↑ Press release music project »electroboy.ch«, electroboy party and exhibition. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES electroboy (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss model, author and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel